Philips HUE Smart Button - 5 press actions + hold-to-dim

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Is input_text something that should be in there already, or something I need to create? If the latter, would it just be a file with max 500 added to it?

Assuming I’m in the right place (inside the homeassistant folder) I’m not seeing an input_text file to edit there:

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The /config folder has the configuration.yaml file and some other things in it, but no .storage folder so I don’t think it’s the right place, the homeassistant folder I think looks closer to what I should be seeing?

Thanks again and sorry about the bother on this!

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That looks like the right folder to me (just in front of your prompt you can see it says .storage). In mine, I have many similar files to yours, but also files like input_button, input_number, and input_text, which describe input helper objects. Yours doesn’t have those files.

Have you created a text input helper before? (Settings > Devices & services > Helpers > Create helper > Text). If so, you’d expect the file to exist… otherwise perhaps HAOS stores these files somewhere else? I run a container, so I can’t say.

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Hey, i just tried to activate the Automation / Blueprint again. One year ago all worked fine, now no matching devices are found in the automation. in Home Assistant there are two smart buttons with each a battery entity and a button event. HA also recognices the button presses and i can use the buttons in a plain automation as a trigger. just on your Blueprint there are no matching devices

these are the specs of the button:
Hue Smart button (ROM001)
von Signify Netherlands B.V.

Connected via [Hue Bridge]
Firmware: 2.77.39

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Ah, I see - I hadn’t created a text helper yet, so the directory didn’t yet exist. After creating one I now have that input_text file.

I’m assuming I just need to change 255 to 500 on ‘max’ here, restart, and then it should be good to go?:

{
  "version": 1,
  "minor_version": 1,
  "key": "input_text",
  "data": {
    "items": [
      {
        "id": "hue_smart_button",
        "name": "HUE Smart Button",
        "max": 255,
        "mode": "text",
        "min": 0
      }
    ]
  }
}

EDIT: Yep, seems that changing line manually there let the automation work. I know have four smart buttons working correctly! Thanks everyone.

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Hey, I have the same problem. I have the same specifications and my Smart Button is not displayed when configuring the blueprint. Have you found a solution for this?

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Hi,
how did you deal with that problem? After checking it seems to be the same but different for me. The short press is overwritten by the long press instantly: Short Release → Second Release. I have configured the second switch to toggle on second press event, but it is not triggered at all, worked for me in the past… I really don’t know why the event refuses to trigger the second switch to toggle.

311

I could never get it to work after spending many hours messing around with it. I decided to get a Aqara button and in minutes I had it working as expected.

312

now it is supported in z2m. Do you have any luck here?

313

Yes it is supported in fact !
But this blueprint is still not working… I changed the text helper to max 500 but it’s like the automation don’t communicate with the button because i have no automation history and nothing happened.
Do you have this to ?

314

i made some reasearch and found that the blueprint checks for the payload release and hold but the new button is sending on, off, brightness_step_up and brightness_step_down.

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Hello everyone, I am completely new to HomeAssistant, and I am currently struggling to figure out how to create a 500 text helper. Whenever I want to go to 500 in the visualisation, I get the message ‘max. 255’. Can I change the value somewhere in YAML?